Trying to reference a dynamically named object

Question

Hi. I'm trying to make an interactive deck of cards and am
mostly done (
http://cards.positivedesign.co.uk
) but i'm having a slight problem. If you click on the link above
you'll see a pile on the right, click on the pile and the top card
lifts and flips into the center. Click on the right pile again and
the center card moves down to a pile on the left, and the next card
flips up to the center, and so on. The problem occurs when you
click on the right pile the 3rd time, the center card moves down to
the left, but goes BELOW the pile rather than on top of it.
I know WHY its doing this - i'm using the child index of the
cards to select which cards to flip, so if you click on a card on
the right and it has an index of 5, it moves the card with index 6
from the center to the left, etc. - I'm just not sure of another
way to do it. I tried naming the cards by numbers, so the top card
has a name of '1', and then I used a currentCard variable to keep
track of which cards I should be moving. However this wouldn't work
when I tried to select which object to tween, because I was
referencing 'cardLayer.currentCard' rather than say,
'cardLayer.card1'...
Hope that all makes sense. I'd appreciate any suggestions on
where I'm going wrong, or a better way of doing it?

Answer 1

a clean solution, nice
Craig
"fatbuoy1" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Yeah but by changing the order of the objects on stage,
like say bringing
> a
> card to the top, I then couldn't use the child index to
work out what
> cards to
> use.
>
> I found another way of referencing the right objects
though.. when I'm
> creating the cards in a for loop, I put the objects
themselves into an
> array,
> and then reference them through their index in the array
when I want to
> manipulate them.
>
> Thanks anyway!
>